They threw him out because his cowardly GOP colleagues — particularly the 5 freshmen liberal Republicans from New York — didn’t want his “taint” on them when running for re-election next year.
With or without Santos on the ballot, the House Republicans were going to lose at least a few seats in New York because those wins were nothing but flukes in 2022 anyway. Then factor in that the Democrats are trying to redraw the lines in New York before 2024 and it would REALLY be a bloodbath in that state.
Racist liberal judges have already cost Republicans House seats in Alabama and Louisiana, and they’re trying to do the same in Georgia. And Florida. And Tennessee. And South Carolina.
Then Wisconsin will redraw their lines to screw Republicans — just because they can — and that will cost 2 seats.
The only mitigating factor is that the GOP may pick up 2 or 3 seats in North Carolina, assuming the new map doesn’t get held up or squashed in court.
Even without any further partisan Democrat gerrymandering, Republican chances of holding the House after 2024 were 50-50 at best. They’ve got a better chance of getting to 51 in the Senate (as if that means “control”) than 218 in the House.
But now that Santos is gone, those chances surely increase astronomically. /s
They're all gonna lose anyway. They were on Zeldin's coattails, but not this time.